MIT Scientists Create AI to Decide What to do if Asteroid is on a Crash Course for Earth
FACTS: A team of scientists at MIT created a computer to help assist with asteroids that pose deadly threats to earth. It simulates a range of scenarios based…
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Ultrasound Therapy Can Selectively Kill Cancer Cells
FACTS: Previous ultrasound methods used high-intensity bursts to kill tumors, but this indiscriminately destroyed both cancerous and healthy cells in the process. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)…
Coming Soon: “Anti-Solar” Panels that Create Energy at Night
FACTS: ACS Photonics journal published an article from UC Davis stating that a specially designed photovoltaic cell could generate up to 50 watts of power per square meter…
Massive, Decade-Long Genome Study Concludes, Shows How and Why Cancers and Tumors Form
FACTS: Cancer is a disease of the genome, caused by a cell's acquisition of somatic mutations in key cancer genes. These mutations alter pathways involved in regulating cellular…
University Scientists are Eradicating Cancer with Copper-Based Nanomaterials
FACTS: The Leibniz Institute of Materials Engineering, and the University of Ioannina are successfully eradicating cancer with nano-sized copper compounds combined with immunotherapy. They found that tumors are sensitive to copper oxide nanoparticles. Researchers combined…